Bag-holder.



No. 669,660. Patented Mar. I2, l90l.

N. E. PIERCE.

BAG HOLD-ER.

(Application filed Dec. 7, 1900.)

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BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 669,660, dated March12, 1901.

Application filed December 7, 1900. Serial No. 39,018. tNo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN E. PIERCE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Bag- Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to that class of devices intended for the supportand distention of bags for filling, and has for its intention simplicityin structure and operation and economy in manufacture.

My invention will fully appear in the following description, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 presents a perspective view of my invention inoperation. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the holding device. Fig. 3 is aside View of the holder, presenting the holding device in a horizontalplane. Fig. 4 is a variation of my invention, showing a means for aidingto hold gunny-sacks and oiherloosely-woven bags,presen ting thecrosshead in section.

More particularly described, I represent by letters the details of myinvention as shown in the drawings.

A represents the base of the frame of my holder, which is constructed ofany desirable flat sheet of timber or any other suitable rigid material.From the base A rises perpendicularly a standard B, of any rigidmaterial. Secured to this standard B by means of the wire loop 0,supported on said standard by the pin or screw b, is a cross-head G, ofany suitable material, preferably wood. To this cross-head C is attachedmy holder proper, which consists of a single piece of stifi wire D,peculiarly formed to meet the demands of my invention and forming ingeneral outline with the cross-head C a rectangle, of which the wire Dforms three sides and the crosshead the fourth. This wire D is securedat either end to the cross-head C, as shown in Fig. 2. I show these endssecured by looping the ends 01 dand passing screws through the loopsinto the cross-head. I then extend the wire up the face of thecross-head and secure it thereto by staples d d. The wire from thesesecured ends extends upward perpendicularly to a point slightly abovethe upper edge of the cross-head 0. Then it is bent forward and formedinto horizontal coils D D. The wire D is then bent forward and slightlydownward,and loops D D are formed, which extend inward and slightlyupward from the horizontal plane of D D. The wire'D is then continuedforward and downward, and the coils D D are formed. These coils lie inthe same plane with the coils D D, and the four coils D D and D D formthe four corners of my rectangle. The wire after forming D D is thenpassed across parallel with the cross-head C to form the fourth side ofthe rectangle. On this fourth side the wire D is formed into a coiledspring D which extends downward and approximately at right angles to thecoils D D and D D The operation of my device is as follows: The open endof the bag to be secured is passed up through the holder and the cornersof the open end folded outward over the four coils D D and D D The edgesare then forced under the loops D D, which serve to take up the slack inthe bag and draw it tightly and securely around the coils. If the bag besmaller than the holder in its normal position, by forcing the ends ofthe holder toward each other various sizes of bags may be held. In thisbending the coiled spring D moves down ward and permits of the bendingwithout injury to the holder, which when released springs back to itsnormal position.

I show in Fig. 4 the ends of the wire (1 cl, instead of being looped andsecured, as shown in Fig. 2, turned toward and driven through thecross-head C. These ends are left to protrude from the back side of thecross-head G and having sharpened ends d 01 may be used to holdgunny-sacks or other loosely-woven bags, which are drawn upward throughthe.

holder and over the cross-head and fastened onto the sharpened ends d62*.

In order to accommodate bags of different lengths, as it is desirablethat the bottom of the bag should rest on the base A in order to preventstrain on the holder by the weight of the contents of the bag, the screwb may he a pin and a series of sockets arranged one above the other inthe back of the standard B to regulate the height of the cross-head,orany other convenient regulation means may be employed.

When the bag is fitted on the holder, the

month is held open in a rectangular form, the forward side of the mouthlying lower than the rear side in order to present a more convenientopening for receiving grain or other substance with which the bag is tobe filled.

The coils which I provide for the support of the bag give resiliency andat the same time strength and comparative rigidity to the de vice.

- What I claim as my invention is 1. A bag-holder consisting of a singlepiece of Wire secured at its terminals to a cross-head and extendingtherefrom forward and downward, forminga rectangle and arranged With acoil at each corner thereof, substantially as ward, forming with suchcross-head a rectan gle, with a coil at each corner and one or moreintermediate loops and coiled springs, sub stantially as described, andfor the purposes herein set forth.

NORMAN E. PIERCE.

Witnesses:

E. L. HETCH, A. R. BLACK.

